The producer is not amazed.
Hollywood producer Carol Baum built scathing remarks about Emmy nominated “Euphoria” actress Sydney Sweeney, 26, through a discussion at a screening of Baum’s 1988 film “Dead Ringers,” in accordance to the Day-to-day Mail.
“She’s not pretty, she just cannot act,” Baum reportedly reported.
“I do not get Sydney Sweeney.”
The film producer referred to Sweeney’s modern romcom “Anyone But You,” in which she stars opposite Glen Powell.
“I needed to know who she is and why everybody’s talking about her,” Baum reportedly advised the audience, contacting the film “unwatchable.”
Who is Baum to make these feedback? Here’s every little thing to know.
Her upbringing
Carol Baum, 81, nee Carol Friedland, grew up in New Jersey. She started her job in the entire world of ebook publishing, where she assisted switch Stephen King’s “The Shining” into a film.
“I experienced a position in the movie enterprise early on, a very small corporation referred to as the Producer’s Circle. But, my job in New York was to uncover manuscripts in advance of they had been posted and come to a decision no matter if they have been going to be videos. That was my occupation,” she mentioned for the duration of an April 2 job interview on the podcast “Industry Regular with Barry Katz.”
She’s married to novelist and screenwriter Tom Baum (“Journey to the Heart of the Earth”).
For the duration of that very same podcast, she said, “I married my superior college sweetheart,” and explained that the two have been married for 60 a long time.
She described her upbringing in South Orange, New Jersey, in the 1950s, “You have been geared to marry…not to be a producer, not to be a businesswoman. Not to do any work at all. The gals in that town did not perform.” She stated she acquired her adore of movies from her grandmother, and described her upbringing as becoming incredibly “American Graffiti.”
The pair have two adult sons, Will and Henry Baum, as very well as a few grandchildren.
Her job and noteworthy get the job done
Baum has developed 34 videos to day, and she’s a member of the Academy of Movement Photograph Arts and Sciences. She’s a previous Vice President at 20th Century Fox, and Co-President of Sandollar Productions, a business founded by Dolly Parton.
Earlier, she’s worked with Parton, Barbra Streisand, “The White Lotus” creator Mike White, David Cronenberg, and “Barbie” co-writer Noah Baumbach.
At this time, she teaches producing at the USC faculty of Cinematic Arts.
Her most noteworthy get the job done contains creating 1988’s “Dead Ringers,” 1991’s “Father of the Bride” starring Steve Martin, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (the 1992 movie starring Kristy Swanson, not the Television present starring Sarah Michelle Gellar) and 1996’s “Fly Absent Home” starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin.
In a lot more modern several years, Baum has made designed-for-Tv set Hallmark Xmas motion pictures this sort of as “Just in Time for Christmas” and “Jolly Great Christmas.”
Her Sydney Sweeney controversy
Baum produced scathing remarks about Sweeney for the duration of a screening, telling the audience that she couldn’t occur up with a rationale for why the actress’ vocation had taken off.
“I explained to my course, ‘Explain this lady to me. She’s not really, she simply cannot act. Why is she so very hot?’” Baum reported, recalling a conversation she experienced with her learners at The University of Southern California College of Cinematic Arts. “Nobody had an solution.”
Still, Baum admitted that she would take on a undertaking if Sweeney, 26, starred in it.
“We all want to get the film designed and who walks absent from a environmentally friendly light? No person I know,” she explained. “Your job is to get the motion picture built.”
Baum faced backlash on social media from her remarks.
“Carol, you are 70. Make bitchy (and improper) opinions with good friends in non-public,” just one man or woman wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“Some lady claimed Sydney Sweeney ‘wasn’t pretty’ and if she wishes to combat me I’ll meet her anyplace she desires,” a different Sweeney enthusiast wrote on X, prior to an additional added, “Just take Sydney is all that. And you are bitter [and] most likely irrelevant.”
“Carol Baum is ‘over’. She is just a bitter aged ladies [sic],” another wrote. “And I can’t say Sydney Sweeney is like an astounding actress(she is fine) there is no denying that she is quite really rather.”
Numerous many others agreed. “In a earth crammed with supremely dumb can take: ‘Sydney Sweeney ‘isn’t pretty’ is… boy… wow!” one individual tweeted, as one more shared a meme that merely wrote “disagree.”
Other celeb controversies
Baum has not had any other notable celeb controversies, to day.
